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All Aboard! Except for Driver of Runaway Train

A British train driver ran 100 meters along the station platform to catch his train after it decided to start its journey without him. "The ticket-collector climbed on and seconds later the train started moving. When I looked out the window I noticed the driver still on the platform. He ran as fast as he could past my window, then jumped on the train and stopped it," passenger Ann Sutton told the newspaper.

The driver had been talking to railway workers on the platform before the train started moving.

The bosses have begun an investigation of the incident. "If the driver hadn't been so quick, the train would have stopped automatically after about another 50 meters," the owners told the newspaper.

Newspaper Headlines -- Double Meanings

Can you find the two meanings?

IRAQI HEAD SEEKS ARMS

EYE DROPS OFF SHELF

CLINTON WINS ON BUDGET, BUT MORE LIES AHEAD

PLANE TOO CLOSE TO GROUND, CRASH PROBE TOLD

MINERS REFUSE TO WORK AFTER DEATH

TWO SISTER REUNITED AFTER 18 YEARS IN CHECKOUT LINE

COLD WAVE LINKED TO TEMPERATURES

TYPHOON RIPS THROUGH CEMETERY; HUNDREDS DEAD

KIDS MAKE NUTRITIOUS SNACKS

CHEF THROWS HIS HEART INTO COOKING FOR THE NEEDY

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL DROP-OUTS CUT IN HALF

Butter in an Aerosol Can

For a long time your mother or sister has used hair spray in an aerosol can. Now in the New Zealand they are preparing to package butter in the aerosol cans. People in Australia said they wanted to buy the butter that way so it would be easy for them to use. That way the butter does not run all over the pleace when it gets hot.

China is a new market for New Zealand to sell butter to. The economy is China is strong and the people can afford to buy butter. China buys five times as much butter today than they did five years ago. In some countries the economics situation is so bad people do not have money to buy butter.